The safe house became a prison in those four days. We couldn't go outside. We couldn't communicate with anyone. We couldn't access the internet without risking exposure. We had only each other and our plans, which felt increasingly fragile the more we examined them.
David was trying to teach me how to operate the electromagnetic pulse device we had constructed. It was a modified version of technology that Elena had developed based on her understanding of the system's vulnerabilities. According to her notes, the device should disrupt the electromagnetic fields that the system used to interface with its distributed processing nodes. In theory, it would create a momentary gap in the system's network connectivity, just long enough for us to destroy the facility's hardware.
In theory.
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